Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research is delighted to announce the 2021 Class of Influential Researchers. These talented researchers, who are in the first 10 years or so of their independent careers, were identified through an open call for nominations, with a focus on researchers in the Americas. The nominations were then reviewed by our global […]

Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research is delighted to announce the 2021 Class of Influential Researchers. These talented researchers, who are in the first 10 years or so of their independent careers, were identified through an open call for nominations, with a focus on researchers in the Americas. The nominations were then reviewed by our global team of editors and advisory board members and selected based on the quality and impact of their research.

This Virtual Special Issue comprises reviews and original research articles invited from this talented group of early-career scientists and engineers. I&EC Research is pleased to showcase these 36 authors and their work. The Influential Researchers are listed below, in alphabetical order by last name, along with their associated research articles.

I&EC Research has been at the forefront of chemical engineering research since 1909, and we continue today as the largest and most-cited general chemical engineering research journal in the world. We congratulate this 2021 Class of Influential Researchers for being at the forefront today, and we are pleased to highlight their work,” says Phillip E. Savage, Editor-in-Chief, in the Editorial. In parallel with this publication, the 2022 call for nominations to the next Class of Influential Researchers opens for early career researchers located in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Milad Abolhasani

Continuous Ligand-Free Suzuki–Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reactions in a Cartridge Flow Reactor Using a Gel-Supported Catalyst

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Moises Bastos-Neto

LTA Zeolite Characterization Based on Pore Type Distribution

Bryan S. Beckingham

Fabrication and Characterization of Cross-Linked Phenyl-Acrylate-Based Ion Exchange Membranes and Performance in a Direct Urea Fuel Cell

Sidi A. Bencherif

Avian Egg: A Multifaceted Biomaterial for Tissue Engineering

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Saad Bhamla

Frugal Science Powered by Curiosity

Jesse Q. Bond

Kinetic and Mechanistic Analysis of the Hydrodeoxygenation of Propanoic Acid on Pt/SiO2

Marco Caricato

Predicted Properties of Active Catalyst Sites on Amorphous Silica: Impact of Silica Preoptimization Protocol

Nick J. Carroll

DNA Binding by an Intrinsically Disordered Elastin-like Polypeptide for Assembly of Phase Separated Nucleoprotein Coacervates

Nagu Daraboina

Particulate Deposition Modeling for Predicting Paraffin Thickness in Flowlines: Application of Data Analytics for Model Parameters

Brandon J. DeKosky

Optimized Production of Fc Fusion Proteins by Sortase Enzymatic Ligation

Eno E. Ebong

Regeneration and Assessment of the Endothelial Glycocalyx To Address Cardiovascular Disease

Ashlee N. Ford Versypt

Mathematical Modeling of the Gut–Bone Axis and Implications of Butyrate Treatment on Osteoimmunology

Michele Galizia

Evidence for Size-Sieving Driven Vapor Sorption and Diffusion in a Glassy Polybenzoxazole Exhibiting Configurational Free Volume

Jean Marcel R. Gallo

Isomerization and Epimerization of Glucose Catalyzed by Sn-Containing Mesoporous Silica

Gaurav Giri

Meniscus Guided Coating and Evaporative Crystallization of UiO-66 Metal Organic Framework Thin Films

Daniel T. Hallinan Jr.

Polymer Blend Electrolytes for Batteries and Beyond

Seok Hoon Hong

Establishing Efficient Bisphenol A Degradation by Engineering Shewanella oneidensis

Gyoung G. Jang

Corrosion Prevention of Additively Manufactured Aluminum Packing Devices Developed for Process Intensification of CO2 Capture by Aqueous Amines

Ayman M. Karim

Kinetic Synergy between Supported Ir Single Atoms and Nanoparticles during CO Oxidation Light-Off

Melissa D. Krebs

Photoinduced Gelatin-Methacrylate Scaffolds to Examine the Impact of Extracellular Environment on Trabecular Meshwork Cells

Li-Chiang Lin

In Silico Screening of Zeolites for the Highly Selective Adsorption of Central C–C Bonds toward More Effective Alkane Cracking

Jian Liu

Understanding the Adsorption of Noble Gases in Metal–Organic Frameworks Using Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy

Emily B. Pentzer

Capsules of the Poly(α-olefin) PAO432 for Removal of BTEX Contaminants from Water

William A. Phillip

Staged Diafiltration Cascades Provide Opportunities to Execute Highly Selective Separations

Toufiq Reza

Pretreatment of Biomass by Selected Type-III Deep Eutectic Solvents and Evaluation of the Pretreatment Effects on Hydrothermal Carbonization

Fateme Rezaei

Assessment of CO2/CH4 Separation Performance of 3D-Printed Carbon Monoliths in Pressure Swing Adsorption

Jessica D. Schiffman

Optimizing the Packing Density and Chemistry of Cellulose Nanofilters for High-Efficiency Particulate Removal

Marc Singer

Improvement to Water Speciation and FeCO3 Precipitation Kinetics in CO2 Environments: Updates in NaCl Concentrated Solutions

Seyed Mohammad Taghavi

Efficient Displacement of Fluids Using a Viscous Shear-Thinning Spacer

Joshua A. Thompson

Rate-Based Absorption Modeling for Postcombustion CO2 Capture with Additively Manufactured Structured Packing

Jesús M. Velázquez

Charge Transport Dynamics in Microwave Synthesized One-Dimensional Molybdenum Chalcogenides

Bin Wang

First-Principles Study of Interaction between Molecules and Lewis Acid Zeolites Manipulated by Injection of Energized Charge Carriers

DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c02808
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Richard H. West

Extensive High-Accuracy Thermochemistry and Group Additivity Values for Halocarbon Combustion Modeling

Luisa Whittaker-Brooks

Interplay between Morphology and Electronic Structure in Emergent Organic and π-d Conjugated Organometal Thin Film Materials

Di Wu

Formation Energetics and Guest—Host Interactions of Molybdenum Carbide Confined in Zeolite Y

Dan Xie

Rational Design and Targeted Synthesis of Small-Pore Zeolites with the Assistance of Molecular Modeling, Structural Analysis, and Synthetic Chemistry

Huiyuan Zhu

Powering the Remediation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Progress and Perspectives of Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction

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